RIOUX, Paul Émile
"IMPH1V"
Artist proof
Archival pigment print on cotton paper
Close edition
Signed on the lower right : Rioux
Print at the artist studio in the Notre Dame Street West at Griffintown.

88x88cm - 35x35''

Evolving out of Op and Pop into New Media, Paul-Émile Rioux is -developing his own particular style of art.

From Pop symbols, labels and identity markers, and using the latest -digital technology, Rioux reminds us that the language of art has moved still further along from its early beginnings in the 1970s. What was once a fixed image can now be manipulated and transformed within the -matrix of the computer screen. Pixels can be expanded until they attain their own beautiful tenor. What Pop was, and what Op was, become a new hybrid art form. Shape, colour, flux, with a fluid in-matrix non-object based -language develop.

The “Fundamental Elements” collection is developed from -geometric elements such as circles, rectangles and straight lines. The pixel is -deconstructed, allowing forms to phase in over the playful exploration proposed by the artist.

We are reminded of Vasarely, James Rosenquist, Mondrian, but Rioux makes no attempt to copy or imitate. The Op - Pop is a pretext to play on and with form, colour, the context per se.

Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada, and for the past 15 years he has been working with digital media.

Rioux combines the art of photography to the procedural tools he explores.